Reading comprehension strategies

Freebie! One of the keys to teaching reading comprehension is showing kids how proficient readers think about text. Teachers have to find a way to make their thinking visible. One way is with graphic organizers.

Here is another reading comprehension worksheet that belongs to my large reading comprehension kit . This one features a dolphin named Dap...

Need a quick reading check? Need a reading comprehension passage that is high interest? Try these free reading comprehension passages with questions. I struggle to find non fiction reading comprehension passages that are high interest for my students. Many of my students are struggling readers, so I value passages that are interesting and fun for ... Read More about Reading Comprehension Passages

When you want students to understand what reading looks like.

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We all know how important reading strategies are to becoming successful readers. My students struggle with many of the strategies. We would focus on one each week, and by the 3rd week, they couldn't remember the first strategy. I created this poster to post in the classroom as a reminder of the strategies. Now, this is not a "post it and ignore it" type of thing. I used it as I taught each strategy and I would refer back to it daily, until it became ingrained in their heads! I printed the…

Roll and retell nonfiction, reading comprehension

The issue of global warming has been widely discussed at the highest governmental and scientific levels recently. The issue is indeed very...

Guided reading questions for character, plot, making connections and reading strategies.